destruction, the Hebrew name (equivalent to the Greek Apollyon,

i.e., destroyer) of "the angel of the bottomless pit" (Rev.

9:11). It is rendered "destruction" in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6;

Prov. 15:11; 27:20. In the last three of these passages the

Revised Version retains the word "Abaddon." We may regard this

word as a personification of the idea of destruction, or as

sheol, the realm of the dead.